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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Este libro es la primera edición chilena de la obra de Charles Darwin cuyo título original fue Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. En sucesivas ediciones el libro se ha titulado Viaje de un naturalista alrededor del mundo o también, más brevemente, El viaje del Beagle. Aquí entregamos los siete capítulos que se refieren a Chile, que constituyen un tercio del total. El texto de estos capítulos es el mismo que entregara Darwin hace 150 años. Se ha...

Según lo que posiblemente esperamos poder demostrar, la verdadera historia de los seres vivientes en la Tierra, se repite a través del tiempo y el espacio. Creemos que podremos considerar y evaluar, que nosotros no somos ni la única ni la primera raza que ha poblado la Tierra. Somos solamente una raza más, la cual es quien está en este momento disfrutando de sus bondades, luz y belleza, así como de las buenas y maravillosas oportunidades que nos brinda este planeta, al cual nosotros, estamos empeñados en destruir, desarrollando todas las formas y todas las fuerzas que estén a nuestro...

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